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SJHP Gets Energy Grant from Florida Governor’s Office
The St. Johns Housing Partnership received an energy grant from the Florida Governor’s Energy Office to retrofit ten homes at The Hancock Place as “zero-energy.” The energy grant is designed to quantify the cost of creating zero-energy workforce housing with renewable energy features.
The Hancock Place is SJHP’s affordable housing development in West Augustine. SJHP’s goal is to develop The Hancock Place as a flagship community of Energy Star and net-zero energy homes and then evaluate the most efficient combinations of energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy systems for affordable housing. Effectiveness is measured in terms of energy and dollars saved.
The flagship community will then initiate a program of educational outreach with measurement and analysis of energy usage at its core. The SJHP will incorporate what is learned into its organization as a model for replication by agencies across the state.
Meet Travis Lane
Travis Lane just turned 18 since graduating from Pedro Menendez High School. As a student of its Academy of Architectural and Building Sciences, Travis chose carpentry over masonry, which he thought was too easy. “Nothing to it.” In contrast, carpentry was harder. “You have to be good at it.” He liked the challenge when learning framing, trim, and cabinetry. Travis was proud to report that his carpentry teacher, James Crutchfield, referred Travis as one of his best students to the St. Johns Housing Partnership on a paid internship.
He’s been with SJHP for six months at first doing small stuff then soon assigned to doing floor joists and overlays, framing roofs and walls, laying tile, building decks and wheelchair ramps, and lots of trim work. He likes the trim work best as well as building decks. He built a 20×40 foot deck himself in 12 hours over 3 days. His ambition, however, is for marine construction. He has five of his own boats, including two 23 ft boats. He enjoys doing the fiber glass interior work on boats, first taught to him by his grandfather, but Travis has use of his grandfather’s woodworking workshop complete with tools. That’s truly a gift for a budding marine craftsman.
Meet Julius Robinson.. Part of the SJHP Family
Julius Robinson graduated from St. Augustine High School this past year after a variety of summer internships helped develop his skills and future ambitions. He interned with First Coast Technical College and then with the St. Johns County School Board, which led to the St. Johns Housing Partnership. At SJHP, he felt the best fit for skills he’d honed with his father in a home improvement business since he was 13. SJHP first assigned Julius to organize weatherization supplies in its warehouse, then general maintenance like pressure washing, painting, and insulating floors on foreclosed property that SJHP had acquired. With more such properties, SJHP got busy in the office, so Julius was reassigned computer data entry on spreadsheets.
SJHP also sent him for training as a weatherization assistant, which defines his current work. “I appreciated the training because of the value that placed on me and my relationship with SJHP,” Julius said. With SJHP’s investment in him, he knows he getting “something useful…being able to maintain one’s own home is cost-effective.” This year, Julius attends St. Johns River State College and expects to next year; then he will decide between a university degree in computer engineering or an Air Force career in aviation mechanics, an interest sparked by a 10th grade course from Emory Riddle Aeronautical University. With such prospects, Julius is marked for success. Still, he voices a love for SJHP “because you can do something for the less fortunate, which is very gratifying
Welcome to the St. Johns Housing Partnership!
Welcome to the new home of the St. Johns Housing Partnership!
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We are a non-profit organization specializing in “green” new home construction along with emergency home repairs for individuals facing hard economic times. We are also weatherization specialists
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| Company Overview |
The St. Johns Housing Partnership is committed to promoting safe, decent and affordable housing in St. Johns County, Florida. We do this by creating links between the public and private sectors on projects that create low- and moderate-income housing, rebuild neglected homes and neighborhoods, thus benefiting disadvantaged areas and enhancing community economic and social development.
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| General Information |
Call 904-824-0902 for more information.
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Promoting Safe, Decent and Affordable Housing
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Weatherization Makes a Difference
Coretta Tomblin was doing ok. She owns her home, she had a good job. Everything was good. And then, like so many people in today’s economy, Coretta lost her job and before she knew it, she was struggling to keep things afloat.
Enter the St. Johns Housing Partnership and the weatherization program. Coretta said, “The program made a difference in my life.”
Coretta said that after she lost her job, she struggled to pay her high utility bills and often had to choose between paying her electric bill and buying groceries. It is a familiar struggle for many weatherization clients who often live on fixed incomes.
Once the weatherization crew put weather-stripping around her doors, caulked her windows, sealed some holes and replaced insulation, things changed again for Coretta.
“My light bill went way down,” she said. Within one month, Coretta was seeing the difference weatherization can make.
“I don’t know how I would have survived without this program,” Coretta said.
Do you know someone who could benefit from having their home weatherized?
Coretta's home is now energy-efficient.
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Volunteers Give Their Time for the Holiday
Volunteer groups spread out across the county to help ten families with the same holiday wish: A wheelchair ramp on their home.
From St. Augustine to Elkton to Hastings, volunteers from Northeast Florida Association of Realtors, Trinity Ramp Squad and St Johns County Fire Department built ramps large and small for the families in need.
SJHP couldn’t do what we do without the hundreds of hours of time from our volunteers.
Thank you all for giving the most precious gift of all: your time.
